To the Editor: Arguing about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays is like wrestling with a pig: you get dirty and the pig likes it. If I were willing to devote the time and energy, I could make the case that all the novels of Charles Dickens were...

February 24, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: We were surprised to see space devoted to the fringe belief that the works of Shakespeare were written not by William Shakespeare, but by the 17th Earl of Oxford. Rejecting the ample evidence for Shakespeare's authorship requires a...

February 24, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: William Niederkorn deserves congratulations for his thoughtful approach to the controversial subject of Shakespearean authorship and his balanced presentation of the case to be made for Edward de Vere as the true author of the...

February 24, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor, I was dismayed to read yet another assault on William Shakespeare's authorship. I can understand an academic in pursuit of a doctoral degree trying to establish someone else's claim to that body of work, and a statistician might...

February 24, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: I read William Niederkorn's article with interest and attended the Smithsonian Institution seminar. Frankly, the glass slipper did not fit the foot of either William Shakespeare from Stratford or the 17th Earl of Oxford. I believe...